Hyperlight

Hyperlight is yet another PHP flat-file blog engine with the intent of being incredibly small and fast.

Features

• 14.7KB installed size (disclaimer: with the smallest packaged theme (uberlight) and no markdown support. Full download size: 76KB)
• Markdown parsing, thanks to Parsedown (optional, adds 37kb to installation)
• Theme support
• Pagination
• RSS Feed (/rss) & Sitemap (/sitemap) for SEO
• Post tags
• No database required

Requirements

• Apache mod_rewrite engine
• PHP (tested on 5.5 and 7.1)

Demo

A demo of the initial installation state can be found here: https://tombofry.co.uk/hyperlight

Documentation/Manual

To get the most out of Hyperlight, it is imperative that you read the manual. It contains:

• Super simple installation steps
• Configuring your installation
• Writing posts/pages
• How to write custom themes

No Admin Panel

Hey, every piece of software has its problems, this has one that you could consider intentional. There's no admin panel to write posts and change settings - all configuration must be done manually. However, all this requires is changing one file (config.php) with the values you want.

As a result, this means you will have to upload images manually and link to them yourself, too.

I do plan on adding this feature at some point.